TORONTO, April 14 (Reuters) - Canadian home resale prices
rose to a record high in March, paced by gains in the two
biggest markets, the Teranet-National Bank Composite House Price
Index showed on Tuesday, but a correction appears underway in
other regions.

The index, which measures price changes for repeat sales of
single-family homes, showed national home prices rose 0.3
percent last month from February. Prices were up 4.7 percent
from a year earlier. The index does not provide actual prices.

While prices were up in eight of the 11 markets surveyed,
the broadest diffusion in seven months, only Toronto and
Vancouver hit record highs.

Prices in Calgary, the largest city in oil-rich Alberta,
increased 0.2 percent in March after declining with the
prolonged fall in oil prices. The Calgary market is being
watched for signs that oil's fall could cause a housing market
collapse.

Calgary home prices were down 2.1 percent from the peak seen
in October 2014, but still up 4.4 percent from a year earlier.

Canada escaped the housing crisis that devastated the United
States in 2009, and average prices have doubled in the past
decade. But analysts have been expecting the market to cool,
with some calling for a soft landing and others predicting a
U.S.-style collapse when interest rates start to rise.

"Housing corrections appear to be underway in most regions.
Among the 11 cities, house prices have peaked and appear to be
declining in six: Victoria, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec
City and Halifax," David Madani, economist at Capital Economics
in Toronto, wrote in a research note.
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